The teacher and the reader: women as inductors into writing
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i40p35-54Keywords:
Ricardo Piglia, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, Journal, Women in literature, Literature teachingAbstract
Throughout The Diaries of Emilio Renzi, Ricardo Piglia mentions several women who played a central role in his beginnings as a writer: his elementary school teacher, his high school classmate, his mother. Women also teach writers by means of their reading, such as Felice Bauer, idealized by Franz Kafka in his diaries and letters, or Anya, the typist in a hybrid novel by J. M. Coetzee. After examining the writings of the self in Piglia, Kafka, and Coetzee in a teaching context, the female figures who stimulate and who receive the writings of male authors turned to me like a strange mirror. In this text, I propose a reflection on how the figurations of the woman-teacher and the woman-reader are constructed in different contemporary works, and finish by narrating the experience of an undergraduate course in which my students wrote a diary as their final project.
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